3n’s Emergency Notification System for Disaster Recovery and Homeland Security – Saving Lives and Limiting Loss
3n’s Automated Emergency Notification System, ‘One Call – Reaches All’ is helping save lives and limit loss by playing a key role in Disaster Recovery and Homeland Security emergency communication operations. In case of emergency alert situations, the 3n Emergency Notification System provides a fast, reliable and efficient way to communicate to thousands of people within a matter of minutes, as opposed to hours or days.
(PRWEB) February 24, 2004--http://www.3nonline.com - National Notification Network’s (3n)
proprietary automated notification technology facilitates Disaster Recovery and
Homeland Security emergency communications through the implementation of a fast
and reliable means of notifying large numbers of people via a single, easy to
use interface. The 3n emergency notification system plays a key role in crisis
management and public safety by providing rapid, accurate, and complete
communication that saves lives and limits loss.
The 3n ‘One Call -
Reaches All’ emergency notification service is the most advanced, efficient and
easy to notification system available on the market today. The system bridges
the gap between all standardized forms of communication. And in an emergency,
when seconds matter, the 3n emergency notification system is capable of
informing anywhere from 10 or 10,000 people. Within minutes it will concurrently
and continuously communicate to all standard message delivery devices including
- home phone - cell phone - work phone - pager - email - instant messaging - fax
- Blackberry - wireless PDA and - wireless laptops, until the message is
received by the intended party.
During non-emergency times, the 3n phone
and email notification system is used very effectively for routine
communications and all-purpose message broadcasting. The 3n emergency
notification system speeds up daily general notification or message delivery
tasks to the point that thousands of messages can be delivered in less time than
it takes to manually dial and deliver 10.
”Today, disaster and crisis can
happen to anyone, anywhere at anytime, says Cinta Putra, CEO of 3n. She adds,
“Knowing that if a crisis occurs, members will be informed of the circumstances
immediately, is peace of mind worth any investment.” The 3n emergency
notification system enables organizational administrators of schools, cities,
companies, hospitals and others to share critical and timely homeland security
or disaster recovery data that outlines the details of an emergency’s
circumstances. It also provides guidelines to message recipients regarding next
stage actions or needs (stay home, come here, pick-up your child
etc).
3n’s emergency notification system has a wide variety of potential
uses to assist with Homeland Security and Disaster Recovery, turning emergency
communications into a fast, reliable, and simple to execute process in cases
like these:
* Terrorism – Alert employees of changes to the Homeland Security
terrorist threat warning level
* Emergency Responders – Notify emergency
response teams and public safety organizations (police, fire, EMT, Hazmat, etc.)
* Building Evacuation – Relay notices to specific floors, buildings or
entire campuses after major disasters (earthquakes, fires, domestic terrorism,
etc.)
* Weather Alerts – Send emergency communications related to
hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, lightening, wildfires, etc.
* Remote
Roll-Calling – Verify safety and location of employees with active feedback
feature (Press 1 if you are at home; Press 2 if you are at the off-site
facility, etc.)
* Activate Response Teams – Ensure rapid notification of
security personnel and business continuity teams
* Routine Notification –
Deliver office messages; contact security personnel & business continuity
teams; send follow-up emergency communications
Traditional communications
are inadequate in a disaster, but even today, most private and public
organizations rely on antiquated telephone trees, call centers or email
distribution lists to communicate with employees. During a large-scale
emergency, these methods are extremely unreliable, as was seen during the 9/11
attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., when many phone networks failed due to
system overloads, and the 2003 blackouts, when many telephone land lines and
computers were non-functional.
Had 3n’s automated emergency notification
system been employed, notification in cases like these would have taken minutes,
not hours or days:
* Counter-terrorism and cyber crimes specialists spent
much of a Thursday afternoon contacting power companies to check for the chance
of terrorist involvement
* UPS, which moves about 12 million parcels each
day nationwide, had to get in touch with drivers unable to deliver or pick up
parcels in New York and other affected cities
* The FAA had to contact major
New York area and Cleveland airports to cancel all flights for several hours
* Nine nuclear power plants were notified to shut down in New York, New
Jersey, Ohio and Michigan
* In parts of Michigan, Ohio and Ontario, water
customers were notified to boil water before drinking or cooking with it until
water systems that had been hit by the outage had been checked out
* New
York’s sanitation workers were notified to work overtime through the weekend to
cope with the tons of trash that accumulated on city sidewalks as residents
emptied their refrigerators of spoiled food
* Ottawa officials notified
thousands of non-essential employees via television, radio and by having each
supervisor contact their employees to tell them to stay home in order to
conserve energy
The 3n emergency notification system can be an integral
component of any Homeland Security and Disaster Recovery communications
contingency plan to save lives and limit loss.
For information about the
3n Emergency Notification System visit: http://www.3nonline.com
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